Posts tagged with "UN"

November 1st, 2018Prime Minister Andrej Babis said on Thursday he wanted to pull the Czech Republic out of a United Nations migration deal and would discuss this with his governing coalition partner, news website idnes.cz reported.
He spoke a day after Austria said it would follow the United States and Hungary in backing out of the UN pact over...

October 21st, 2018Apart from politicians and those journalists on the Cyprus-problem beat, does anyone care any more?
Elias Hazou
POLITICAL leaders may have expressed satisfaction or dissatisfaction over the UN Secretary-General’s report that prospects for reunification talks ‘remain alive’, but for many ordinary Cypriots, jaded by the endless...

October 18th, 2018Turkish Cypriot leader, Mustafa Akinci, would like to meet President Nicos Anastasiades, before the former’s trip to Turkey at the end of the month, reports said on Thursday.
According to Turkish Cypriot daily Yeni Düzen, Akinci had sent a message to Anastasiades through the head of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus,...

October 16th, 2018In addition to his view on the Cyprus negotiating process, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, in his report released late Monday, pointed out that there had been little movement on new trust-building or confidence-building measures.
“The implementation of outstanding agreed confidence building measures previously agreed by the...

October 16th, 2018Cyprus has protested to the UN Secretary-General over provocative acts by Turkey against fishing vessels flying the Cypriot flag both within the island’s maritime zones, and on the high seas.
In a letter to the UNSG, the Permanent Representative of Cyprus to the UN, Ambassador Kornelios Korneliou refers to incidents that took...

October 9th, 2018UN Ambassador Nikki Haley has resigned, a person familiar with the situation said on Tuesday, and the White House said she would appear with President Donald Trump at an event later in the morning.
Trump accepted the resignation, Axios news site reported, citing two sources familiar with the matter. Haley discussed her resignation...

October 4th, 2018Authorities in the north have requested the removal of an Unficyp camp located near a university in Famagusta in the north so that they can turn it into a park for residents in the area, it was reported on Thursday.
According to Turkish Cypriot media, ‘foreign minister’, Kudret Ozersay, announced that during their recent visit to...

October 3rd, 2018President Nicos Anastasiades will brief the political party leaders next week on his contacts in New York, it emerged on Wednesday.
He will inform the leaders of his meeting with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and other contacts he had on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.
Anastasiades, both in his meeting with Guterres...

September 30th, 2018
The last time the UN General Assembly laughed at something said or done by a leader of a big power was when Nikita Khrushchev angrily banged his shoe on the lectern at the podium. The assembly at that time may have been laughing at Harold Macmillan’s humorous riposte calling for an interpreter of the language of shoe-banging,...

September 27th, 2018By George Psyllides
President Nicos Anastasiades said Thursday he was deeply concerned about the lapse of time, and the subsequent consequences, since Cyprus reunification talks collapsed in the summer of 2017 and the fact there has not been any sign of resumption yet.
Addressing the United Nations General Assembly in New York on...

September 26th, 2018The Cyprus problem was among the issues discussed in a hour-long meeting between Greece’s Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan, in New York on Tuesday.
A Greek government source said that the atmosphere between the two men was improved compared with their last meeting in July, during a Nato summit,...

September 24th, 2018The Cyprus issue will be at the centre of contacts Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will have during the UN General Assembly in New York this week, CNA reported on Monday.
Tsipras, who left Athens for the US on Monday is being accompanied by Foreign Minister Nicos Kotzias and other officials.
Developments in the Cyprus issue...

September 23rd, 2018Opposition Akel on Sunday questioned President Nicos Anastasiades’ commitment to a resumption of talks suggesting he would lay down conditions that would stop UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres from recommending a new round of negotiations.
The comments came shortly after Anastasiades landed in New York for the UN General...

September 23rd, 2018President Nicos Anastasiades has underlined his determination and willingness to work for the resumption of Cyprus talks on his arrival in the US this weekend.
Speaking to the press in New York, where he is attending the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly, Anastasiades said that this year’s session was of particular interest,...

September 18th, 2018A failure in a new round of Cyprus negotiations would completely change the basis of a dialogue, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Tuesday during an interview with the Cyprus News Agency.
He added that the change would not be because of the Greek Cypriot side’s wish for that to happen, but because the parties involved in the...

September 14th, 2018By Evie Andreou
Proper preparation is imperative before the launch of a new round of settlement talks in order to have a positive outcome, but the Turkish side must also be responsive, Greek Foreign Minister Nicos Kotzias said on Friday.
Kotzias was in Cyprus to sign a deal on behalf of Greece with the Bishop of Kykkos concerning...

September 13th, 2018There is no guarantee that Cyprus will be able to retain the UN peacekeeping force for another six months when its mandate expires at the end of January, Greek Cypriot negotiator Andreas Mavroyiannis has said.
According to CNA Mavroyiannis believes that a lot of work needs to be done in the immediate future to prove that there is a...

September 2nd, 2018The consultations carried out by Jane Holl Lute, the UN Secretary-General’s envoy on Cyprus, will determine whether all interested parties desire a settlement to the Cyprus problem, Foreign Minister Nicos Christodoulides has said.
Speaking to reporters after attending a commemoration ceremony in Paphos, Christodoulides said the...

September 2nd, 2018Referring to my article that was published last Sunday, a friend sent me the following note: “I do not consider the goal of seeking the severance of the political cord connecting northern Cyprus with Turkey attainable. It follows that a solution based on a bizonal, bicommunal federation cannot be a permanent and safe...

August 26th, 2018Cyprus hopes that developments expected in the Autumn will pave the way for a resumption of talks from where they left off at Crans-Montana last year.
Deputy Government Spokesperson Klelia Vassiliou said on Sunday the Greek Cypriot side hoped that the developments would shift Ankara`s stance especially as regards the security aspect...

August 5th, 2018Nicosia appears open to the possibility of a joint meeting between UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, President Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinji after the UN General Assembly, if requested by the UN chief, CNA reported on Sunday.
The UN General Assembly is held in New York each September.
CNA cited a...

July 26th, 2018United Nations human rights experts called on Bahrain on Thursday to release detained activists, end restrictions on freedom of expression, and end discrimination against women.
Bahrain, where a Sunni Muslim royal family rules over a Shi'ite-majority population, has cracked down on perceived threats since Arab Spring protests in...

July 24th, 2018UN envoy Jane Holl Lute left Cyprus early on Tuesday for New York having completed her contacts on the island.
In addition to President Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci Lute did not have any other meetings, according to CNA sources. However, as expected, she did meet with the Special Representative of the...

July 18th, 2018Britain and the US appear to be consulting over the content of a draft resolution for the renewal of Unficyp’s, the UN peacekeeping force in Cyprus, mandate, since it has not yet been submitted to the other Security Council permanent members, according to a diplomatic source.
The US has put forward a series of criteria concerning...

July 17th, 2018The UN Security Council welcomed on Tuesday the decision to appoint Jane Hol Lute as the UN secretary general’s consultant on the Cyprus problem.
Following a meeting with the head of Unficyp Elizabeth Spehar, the security council’s spokesman Olaf Skug said that the council supports her efforts and those of Unficyp, and that the...

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